"Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the
pledge!" Trump tweeted. "I saw his speech two hours early but let
him speak anyway. No big deal!"

Cruz earned the ire of the convention's delegates — and of Trump,
who arrived toward the end of the speech — when he did not
endorse the real-estate mogul during a prime-time speech and told
the crowd that it should vote its "conscience," a not-so-subtle
dig at Trump.

Cruz's remarks, and the subsequent backlash, amounted to an
extraordinary moment in a convention that was meant to unify the
party ahead of a November general-election matchup with
presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Instead, the Cruz speech outshone later remarks from Mike Pence,
the Indiana governor whom Trump selected last week to be his
running mate. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, appearing two
speaking slots after Cruz, was forced to attempt to clean up some of the Texas senator's
remarks.